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I think it takes parts from Gnome 3, so apparently it works to apply the :fix needed for Gnome 3 to show files on the desktop using Gnome Tweak Tool
This also appears to work for showing the desktop icons (and restoring the background & fixing the dash not opening using the Super key) on Unity after having a go at installing Pantheon (and then using ...

Yes, there is an amazing GUI called conkey-manager. You can use it to configure conky, manage themes, etc.
Install it by adding the PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install conky-manager
Then just run conky-manager.

Fix it with
text_buffer_size 2048
text_buffer_size bytes
Size of the standard text buffer (default is 256 bytes). This buffer is used for intermediary text, such as individual lines, output from $exec vars, and various other variables. Increasing the size of this buffer can drastically reduce Conky's performance, but will allow for more text display per ...